I keep seeing statements either explicitly or implicitly talking about the intent of the law, and excuse me as its been a long time since I did case law research for litigators, but I thought that relying on the legislature’s intent was reserved generally for situations where there are ambiguities in the language of…

The opinion is not as egregious as the article makes it out to be, but still wrong. The Court defines “perform” as “refers to completion of an action according to an established procedure.” The established procedure is to tighten the lug nuts to a specific torque. The mechanic didn’t do that, so he didn’t “perform”…

There’s a manual with a defined procedure on how to perform a tire rotation. If the mechanic did not follow the procedure, they have not performed the procedure. Neither mechanics, customers, judges, nor lawyers can arbitrarily decide what constitutes a tire rotation.